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Isn't halon poisonous in the presence of fire? I used to be a sailor,

and we

had warnings posted in every halon equipped space about the dangers of

this

stuff. But it supposedly puts out fire immediately.
Rob Day

James Phillips wrote:

I work for an Air Guard  A-10 Unit. We have Halon bottles on the flightline.
We have to get recurrent training on there use. All they have ever said
about them is that Halon displaces oxygen. So you only want to use them in a
well ventilated area to prevent your own asphyxiation. We used to have them
in the buildings but they have since been removed. I heard that had as much
to do with the EPA as anything. The guy from the Base fire department didn't
seem too happy about having to replace them. He said they were about the
most effective extinguishers available.

BTW I used to work F-16s. I recall that they had a halon system that would
fill the empty fuel tank airspace to prevent fire from combat damage. I
think that is how it worked but it wasn't my system so I could be a little
off here.  James

 
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